Kansas State’s offense scored touchdowns on seven of its first eight possessions and its defense held SEMO to under a yard rushing per attempt in the opening 30 minutes as the Wildcats cruised to a 45-0 win to open the 2023 season. Quarterback Will Howard threw for 297 yards, completing 18 of 26 attempts, Junction City’s D.J. Giddens ran for 128 on 15 carries and Ben Sinnott and R.J. Garcia eclipsed 100 yards receiving each as K-State nearly put up 600 yards of offense in the victory. K-State’s intial points of the new season came on a Howard to Jadon…
Author: Troy Coverdale
Troy Coverdale
Currently the host of "KMAN's Morning News", Troy is a 30 year veteran of radio, nearly 20 in northern Colorado, where he served as the "Voice of the UNC Bears" while serving as the news and sports director for one of the oldest AM stations in the country. No stranger to Manhattan nor Kansas, Troy is an alum of K-State in broadcast journalism and grew up near Circleville. He began his broadcast career with KSDB-FM on campus while working part time at another radio station in town. He's married to the former Monica Haugsness of Seneca, who has patiently put up with his schedule for more than 25 years.
Big man Patrick Ngongba has laid out a calendar for a series of upcoming campus visits as he tries to determine where to further his basketball career starting next fall. The 6-foot-10, 235-pound senior out of Fairfax, VA, Paul VI Catholic will visit four of the schools on his list of those under consideration, including making a stop in Manhattan to visit K-State October 27th. Ngongba will visit Michigan September 8th, Kentucky on September 29th and Duke on October 20th before making his second campus visit to K-State. He had earlier in the summer listed the Wildcat program as one…
A day after he was cut from the Kansas City Chiefs roster, former K-State corner Ekow Boye-Dowe agreed to terms and will be assigned to the team’s practice squad for the coming season. Boye-Dowe finished the pre-season with seven solo tackles and had been strong in coverage throughout.
The countdown to the season opener for K-State football is at eight days with an expection that one of the top recruiting classes in program history could provide depth this season. Chris Klieman says development of depth continues, though, ahead of the game week prep starting in earnest. The Cats host SEMO a week from tomorrow and it’s now official that the first four home games for K-State have only standing room only tickets available. There is a distinct possibility that the Wildcats could have sellouts for every game this season, with under 500 tickets available for the remaining games.…
K-State’s pre-season practices continue with 25 days until kickoff but one major piece is being held out for the time being. Coach Chris Klieman says offensive lineman Christian Duffie has been sidelined with an injury. Duffie has started 35 consecutive dating back to the 2020 season, which is the longest current streak on the team. He started all 14 games at right tackle in his junior campaign last fall. Klieman mentioned he’d like to see the offensive line rotation develop to a consistent eight or nine players for the season, but that Carver Willis, John Pastore and Andrew Leingang are…
ESPN reports ACC leaders are expected to begin “exploratory” discussions this week on the potential additions of Cal and Stanford to the conference. The pair of schools are currently in the Pac-12 with Oregon State and Washington State. Amidst the mess of realignment, one question has loomed: why doesn’t college football have someone overseeing it beyond conference commissioners? Former Big 12 chief Bob Bowlsby. Bowlsby on ESPN Radio yesterday. Cal’s board of regents has a morning meeting scheduled today to further discuss it’s Pac 12 membership.
The first game-style action of the pre-season for Kansas City comes Sunday when the Chiefs open up preseason play on the road against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday afternoon. General manager Brent Veach says that the franchise has no intention of trading star defensive tackle Chris Jones amidst their current contract dispute. But how much work does he need to be ready for the season, Coach Andy Reid? The Chiefs took the field for a two-hour and 25-minute padded practice on Monday, marking their seventh padded session in the last 11 days. In other news, linebacker Isaiah Moore was…
Kansas City Royals left-hander Ryan Yarbrough was placed on the 15-day injured list with what was classified as “head fractures” after taking a 106-mph line drive off the right side of his face Sunday. Royals manager Matt Quatraro said Yarbrough has three non-displaced fractures in different spots around his right eye. “He’s stable, improving,” Quatraro said before Monday’s game. “He never lost consciousness. He’s very aware of what’s going on around him. We don’t think at this time will require surgery. He’s getting further testing and we’ll have a better idea (of his prognosis) in the next 24 hours.”
After pulling out a dominating 56-40 win at Lawrence Friday night, the Manhattan Indians will be the seventh-seed when the KSHSAA 6A State Tournament begins this coming Wednesday. The Indians will meet Blue Valley North (19-3) to begin the tournament at Charles Koch Arena on campus at Wichita State University. Tip time will be 2:00pm. Manhattan was one of three road teams that pulled off upsets Friday night in 6A West sub-state finals. Junction City clipped Garden City 46-43 and Derby bested Washburn Rural in 4 overtimes to advance. Junction City will open against the defending champion, Wichita Heights, who…
Manhattan High placed third as a team at the 6A Wrestling regional Saturday, qualifying 11 wrestlers for the state tournament, including a pair of first place finishers. Caeleb Hutchinson (36-3) placed 1st at 106 Jameal Agnew (35-9) placed 1st at 132 Cameron Coonrod (27-19) placed 4th at 113 Taivaughnn Walsh (18-14) placed 4th at 120 Logan Lagerman (32-5) placed 2nd at 126 Ben Uher (19-23) placed 7th at 144 Isaac Sinks (27-15) placed 2nd at 157 Landon Dobson (21-12) placed 3rd at 175 Raymond Gary-Hernandez (22-14) placed 5th at 190 Jaxon Vikander (30-9) placed 4th at 215 Clayton Frehn (27-7)…